Rocket Proton-M. Photo from the website of Roscosmos The emergency launch of the three Glonass satellites on December 5 occurred due to the incorrectly written formula in the technical documentation. According to Interfax , this was stated by the head of the interdepartmental commission to investigate the causes of the accident, general director of TsNIIMASH Gennady Raikunov.

Vladimir Bukovsky. Frame of the faces-TV Writer Vladimir Bukovsky was found in London. Due to problems at passport control, he missed his flight from Moscow and returned to London a few hours later. Earlier, journalist Alexander Podrabinek said that Bukovsky disappeared on Thursday after passing customs control at the Domodedovo airport. The Podrabinek brought him to the airport in his car.

December 14, 2010, a rally in support of the former leaders of Yukos, organized by the Yekaterinburg branches of Oborona, Solidarity and Yabloko.

Pskov paratroopers. Collage from the site rusk.ru In the Chechen Republic, an investigation of a criminal case was resumed on the fact of the death of the Pskov paratroopers near the village of Ulus-Kekt Shatma district in 2000. According to RIA Novosti, ten years later the first accused appeared in the case. According to the representative of the regional department of the Investigative Committee, the charges were brought by two fighting participants.

Disaster near Smolensk. Photo from the site www.ura.dn.ua Poland will not accept the report presented by the Interstate Aviation Committee on the circumstances of the collapse of the Tu-154 President of Poland near Smolensk. According to RIA Novosti, the Polish TVN24 television channel said, citing the prime minister of the country Donald Tusk. "The draft report of the MAC in the form in which it was handed over to the Russian side, of course, cannot be accepted," Tusk said.

Gennady Timchenko. Photo richbigmoney.ru In the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow, the process of businessman Gennady Timchenko began the claims of the authors of the report “Putin. Results” to Boris Nemtsov and Vladimir Milov. As the correspondent of the faces reports, the court submits an expanded version of the claim for 100 pages. The plaintiff demands to exclude from the report “Putin. Results.

Patrol car. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin instructed the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate to take all measures to ensure security in the city and strengthen patrols on the streets, RIA Novosti reports.

Vladimir Putin in the Ivanovo hospital. Photo from the site www.premier.gov.ru Cardiologist Ivan Khrenov from Ivanovo, who complained to the Prime Minister Vladimir Putin during a direct television, is afraid that he will be fired. “I won’t be surprised if they’ll meet me somewhere in a dark lane, or just forced to write“ in my own ”, and then I can’t find a job by specialty in Ivanovo,” RIA Novosti quoted the words.

Riot police disperse disagreements into the nipple of Novgorod. Photo from Newsru.com Police will use waterlets and tear gas to disperse the participants in the riots. As Interfax reports, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Rashid Nurgaliev stated. "We will act as the law allows us, and only within the framework of the law. We will strictly act precisely in cases where it will be unauthorized measures, and we will see that they can develop into pogroms and mass riots.

Portrait of Valentina Matvienko in the snow. Photo: sergey-chernov.livejournal.com The Moscow Art Theater Actor Mikhail Trukhin urged Valentin Matvienko to resign the governor of St. Petersburg. In an open letter published by the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper, the actor accuses the governor of a poor organization of utilities. On Tuesday, in the center of St.

Disaster near Smolensk. Photo from the site www.ura.dn.ua Russia is ready to answer all the questions that the Polish side arose after receiving the report of the Interstate Aviation Committee on the circumstances of the crash under the Smolensk aircraft of the Polish President Lech Kachinsky. This "Ekhu Moscow" was stated by the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Alexei Sazonov. He also added that it is not worth politicizing the current situation.

Vladimir Bukovsky. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The writer Vladimir Bukovsky disappeared after passing customs control at the Domodedovo Airport, journalist Alexander Podrabinek told the faces. On Thursday at 15.00, Bukovsky was supposed to fly to London. The Podrabinek brought him to the airport in his car. According to Podrabinka, when, after the customs inspection, Bukovsky went to passport control, several special services were followed by him.

Vitaly Portnikov. Photo from the site www.day.ua The "direct lines" of Vladimir Putin, as a rule, are remembered by one or two episodes, which are then retold by journalists and random spectators. Here was the famous "Direct Line", after which two New Year trees - "Presidential" and "Governor" at once on the central square of Birobidzhan.

Sergey Udaltsov. Photo by the border.ru The Tver Court of Moscow rejected the cassation appeal of the coordinator of the Left Front Sergey Udaltsov, whom on December 14 the magistrate court sentenced to 15 days of arrest for "hooligan actions and disobedience to police officers", Gazeta.ru reports with reference to the press secretary of the Left Front Anastasia Udaltsov. She emphasized that Udaltsov continues the hunger strike, which he announced immediately after the detention at the rally.

Julian Assange. Photo from the site www.antipr.org The Australian police did not find a crime in the actions of the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange, BBC reports. "The Federal Police of Australia completed an assessment of the available material from the site and did not reveal anything illegal as part of the jurisdiction of the country's law," the police said.